Facing Challenges of Transhumanism: Religion, Science, Technology
News & Events Features
- The Transhumanist Imagination: Innovation, Secularization, and Eschatology a workship at Arizona State University on Monday, 9 April 2012.
- Artists, engineers, bio scientists, social scientists, story–tellers and designers to build, draw, write and rethink the future of the human species and the environments that we share at "Emerge: Artists + Scientists Redesign the Future" on March 1-3, 2012.
- Hava Samuelson speaks at Arizona State University Faculty Forum "Why Should Transhumanism Matter to Humanists? Making the Case for Interdisciplinarity" on Wednesday, 25 January 2012.
- Hava Samuelson speaks at Emory Neuroscience Program's second annual Neuroethics symposium "Brain Enhancement: Can we do it? Should we? Who says?" on Monday, 2 May 2011.
- "H+ Transhumanism and Its Critics" brings together sixteen of the world’s foremost thinkers to discuss the often heated debate about transhumanism and provides a fruitful field for philosophical and theological inquiry.
- Brad Allenby will discuss and sign copies of "The Techno-Human Condition," a new book written with co-author Daniel Sarewitz at 7pm on Monday, May 2nd at Changing Hands Bookstore.
- "The Pumpkin or the Tiger? Anticipating the Social Consequences of Emerging Technologies" a lecture by Professor David Guston, Director of the Nanotechnology and Society Program at ASU.
- Brad Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz publish their latest book The Techno-Human Condition.
- Maxwell Mehlman presents "Can Humanity Survive Evolutionary Engineering?" at the Transforming Humanity Conference.
- Hava Samuelson and the Judaism, Science & Medicine Group promote and facilitate a relationship between Judaism and the sciences for the mutual benefit of both.
- Philip Clayton speaks on emergence theory and its implications for religion. Listen to the podcast.
- Transhumanists respond to papers from last year's workshop in the Feb. 2009 issue of the Global Spiral.
- Transhumanism seminar members interviewed for TV program Matter and Beyond. Scroll to “Science and Religion” (Season 5, Episode 2) to view.
- Maxwell Mehlman speaks on public policy and human enhancement. Listen to the podcast.
- Margaret Wertheim speaks on changing notions of selfhood and space in an age of converging technologies. Listen to the podcast.
- The Global Spiral (June 2008) publishes papers from the Spring Workshop on Transhumanism and the Meanings of Progress.